#mystechs

[sketchyallstar]

I bought @abd-illustrates ‘s book, 100 Lessons to create Anime and Manga characters, and some of the poses and references in the book inspired me to draw my superhero OCs again, this time in training scenarios! I’m actually using up the last couple of pages in my moleskine sketchbook, I’m using this to cap off the sketches and designs I’ve made while I’ve had the book in my possession. It’s a good marker of how far I’ve come with my art, and a reminder that an artist’s training arc is never really finished.

[nightmare-grass]

I like making characters and making up stories, but I just realized I’ve only made 3 fully realized villain characters, and they’re all based on myself. I’ve made other villain characters but they’re more like fleeting ideas of antagonistic forces for my hero characters to stop. These three villains are as follows;

- For my independent Superhero story; Half-human clone daughter of an alien warlord who eventually betrays her father and joins the heroes

- Miraculous Ladybug OC; an Akuma called Maze Mage; a girl kept being denied the time to play D&D with her friends and she gets fed up, being akumatized to resemble her character, a half wood elf/half dark elf druid. She turns Paris into a giant hedge maze with illusory monsters

- Carmen Sandiego OC; an agent of VILE, codename: Lindwurm; like a dragon, she is vicious, selfish, greedy, and vain. She mainly works for Countess Cleo and steals all kinds of jewels and precious metals, very good at discerning the value of a thing just by looking at it

[sketchyallstar]

I think this is the first time I’m posting all these characters together, these are my next gen Mystechs! They attend a summer camp themed around learning practical superhero skills run by Starburst, original leader of the Mystechs, but under her guidance they don’t have the weight of the world on their shoulders, they can just be teenagers and goof around, learning about each other and themselves. I wanted to design their civilian looks to be their more standard looks, cuz they suit up for hero stuff a lot less than their predecessors had to. I’m still working out their hero designs, but from left to right their hero names are Troubadour, Arachne, Moon River, Lamplighter, and Skyjack sitting on the ground in front.

[sketchyallstar]

My current work in progress, started as a single practice pose but I loved how it came out, so I quickly sketched the rest of my superhero OCs in poses demonstrating their abilities, arranging it in a format like comic book cover art, and I love it so much, I worked on it in bursts of a few hours over two days but I finished it just now, and now the only thing I’m terrified of is ruining it by adding color. I think this will have to be another of my digital art pieces, cuz I want the ability to undo mistakes, add cool effects, all that stuff, but that means it’ll probably be months before I finish it. So yeah, to recap, Starburst has robotic arms that shoot plasma, Rooster has gadgets he invented himself like a vocal amplifier neckpiece, giving him sonic scream powers, Poltergeist has ghost powers like levitation, invisibility, and intangibility, and Lionheart has magical healing flames. Galactix is the right hand of the alien conquerer villain, Kyarus the Blackguard, so she’s sent out to fight the heroes on his behalf, meaning she deals with them way more often.

[sketchyallstar]

I’ve wanted to draw my ocs in the Supernatural/Barbie mug shot meme for ages but I’ve only just finished this piece, and I’m so happy with how it came out

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Doodle dump from the first few pages of my new sketchbook; I wasn’t gonna post the Monster High doodles initially but then I discovered the paper I was using had pretty solid bleed from sharpies, and I decided to color the back of the sketch, not touching the pencil linework I did, and my limited colors of sharpies was perfect for Mouscedes’ color scheme, since this was a bit of a redesign. I only drew Toralei next to her because I realized they could make a cute ship.

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The Mystechs at their first big battle with their newer member, Lionheart, healer of the team.

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Updated reference for Poltergeist, one of the founding members of my original superhero team the Mystechs! Full name Clara Windham-Nakano, her parents are famous archaeologists who are usually off traveling for their work so Clara’s left home alone a lot, but her parents send her cool trinkets and artifacts to show they’re still thinking of her. One day she got sent a sort of totem, and a secret compartment hid a magical stone that held the elemental energy of the Spirit Realm. The stone fused itself to her back and gave her the magical powers of invisibility, intangibility, minor flight, and mediumship, essentially making her a living ghost. That headshot beside the full body reference is meant to show how she appears in the Spirit Realm, where she goes when she goes invisible. I imagined it as our world but all the colors were inverted, here’s the reference pic with colors actually inverted instead of my artists rendering;